After months of mounting hypothesis, Barack and Michelle Obama have lastly addressed rumors about their marriage.

In a shocking look on Michelle’s podcast “IMO,” the couple tackled headlines suggesting they had been heading for divorce.

With heartfelt admissions and candid humor, the Obamas cleared the air and shared an intimate look into their practically 33-year journey collectively.

Barack Obama joined his spouse, Michelle, on the “IMO” podcast, co-hosted by her brother, Craig Robinson, the place the couple brazenly addressed swirling divorce rumors.

The sunshine-hearted tone was evident from the beginning when Robinson joked, “What, you guys like one another?”

Michelle rapidly responded, “Oh yeah, the rumor mill,” prompting Barack to quip, “She took me again! It was contact and go for some time.”

Michelle added with sass, “After we aren’t [in the same room], people suppose we’re divorced.”

The couple’s playful banter set the stage for extra profound revelations about their bond and the false narratives typically unfold on-line.

Regardless of the persistent rumors, Michelle made it clear that her love and dedication to her husband have by no means wavered.

In an emotional second, she acknowledged, “There hasn’t been one second in our marriage the place I thought of quitting my man.”

She continued, “And we have had some actually laborious occasions. So we had plenty of enjoyable occasions, plenty of adventures, and I’ve change into a greater individual due to the person I am married to.”

Barack admitted he was largely unaware of the hypothesis till others introduced it to his consideration.

“These are the sorts of issues that I simply miss, proper? So I do not even know these items’s occurring.”

He added, “After which any individual will point out it to me and I am all like, ‘What are you speaking about?'”

Michelle’s brother, Craig Robinson, added to the narrative by recalling a fan encounter in Kansas.

He shared how a girl posed for a photograph and whispered, “What did he do?” implying Barack should have made a mistake.

“What makes you suppose he tousled?” Robinson joked.

The rumor mill had been in overdrive after Michelle skipped some main political occasions, together with former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral and Donald Trump’s inauguration.

These choices fueled gossip that the Obamas had been not collectively, however Michelle firmly acknowledged these had been selections she made independently.

In a separate podcast look earlier this 12 months, she dismissed rumors of marital stress, noting, “If I had been having issues with my husband, all people would learn about it.”

She laughed as she assured listeners she’s “not a martyr” and would by no means undergo in silence. “I might be on the market, like, ‘Let me let you know what this idiot did,'” she joked.

Michelle additionally addressed the divorce rumors throughout an look on Sophia Bush’s iHeartRadio podcast, “Work in Progress.”

The previous First Woman stated, “That is the factor that we girls battle with, disappointing folks. I imply, a lot in order that this 12 months, folks could not even fathom that I used to be making a alternative for myself.”

She blamed the rumors on society, noting, “This could not be a grown girl simply making a set of choices herself, proper? However that is what society does to us.”